Garden-houses. 



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the wall, and has a delightful little conical 

 roof rising at the angle. This unusual and 

 interesting plan has the practical advan- 

 tage that the occupants of the pavilion 

 have two views, one down the path to the 

 first summer-house, the other across the 

 lawn. Reference must also be made to 

 the treatment of the wall. The stepping 

 in its parapet is emphasised by the crown- 

 ing of the piers by simple ornaments of 

 obelisk type which have quite a Jacobean 

 flavour. But they are no more than old 

 rick-stones, and their mushroom-shaped 

 tops have been placed under the stalks to 

 serve as bases. It was an ingenious 

 thought to give these old features of the 

 farmyard a new lease of life as garden 

 decorations. At The Grove, Mill Hill, 

 Mr. Stanley Hamp has designed a pleasant 

 garden - house (Fig. 303) in brick and 

 timber, which is the more interesting for 



FIG. 304. — THATCHED HOUSE IN NORFOLK. 



FIG. -303. — AT THE GROVE, MILL HILL. 



being set on the side of a sharp slope. 

 Rising as it does from a well-grown 

 herbaceous border, it dominates its 

 surroundings in very agreeable fashion, 

 and looks across a wide stretch of 

 garden to the house, with which it 

 accords well. 



The thatched pavilion at Happis- 

 burgh, Norfolk, designed by Mr. 

 Detmar Blow, is in a vernacular 

 manner (Fig. 304) . The house which 

 it adjoins is also thatched. In general 

 this roof treatment needs to be em- 

 ployed with discretion. Sometimes a 

 rustic pavilion, log-built and thatched, 

 will be placed in relation to a house 



